It appears from reports that United States will be the third
member of the Three Power Committee [1] and possibly Sayre. Do not
communicate this to the Dutch as yet.

2. Our representative is not yet selected but will advise within
the next few days.

3. The meeting will probably take place at Singapore and it may be
inconvenient and inappropriate for Australian representative to
make the journey to Djokjakarta though one of his staff could do
so, if necessary. A more desirable procedure would be for the
Republican authorities to send immediately to Canberra someone to
discuss the work of the Committee of Three with us, but this
should be done with full approval of the Dutch authorities. Please
advise as to whether this is practicable.

4. In the meantime, we are giving some consideration to attitude
our representative might adopt with a view to formulating a
proposal acceptable to both parties.

Please ask the Dutch authorities in confidence what are their
objectives from the
point of administrative procedures, the type of legislative
authority which might be set up in Indonesia, and the type of
control over estate products and matters of this kind. They should
understand that unless we are aware of their requirements, we
cannot effectively assist the Committee in reaching a satisfactory
settlement. If they too would desire to send someone to Canberra
to discuss these matters with us, we would welcome it.

5. Please report, if possible, by Tuesday. For your own
information, we have suggested time of meeting at Singapore 1st
October and are proposing at the same time that it should continue
for no more than ten days or two weeks when the basic plan would
be formulated, and that it would meet a month or so later to
review progress between the two parties and, if necessary, at
similar intervals until a satisfactory solution had been assured.